" May the Lord be generous in increasing your love and make you love one another and the whole human race as much as we love you. " (1 Thess 3:12-4:2)

Dear Friends,

In some ways it is hard to believe that we are coming to the end of another successful year at Holy Trinity.  Thank you to all in our community who give of their time, their skills and themselves to help the students, staff and families in our care.  A particular thank you to all parents who have volunteered through the P and F and rosters, School Board or in the classroom to help throughout 2018.  We have many things to be thankful for, expecially being a part of this giving and caring community at both Holy Trinity School and Parish.

Last week you would have received our Term 4 edition of 'Inspiring Connections', celebrating all the wonderful learning that has happened in our PYP framework, especially with the Year 5 and 6 Exhibition. Yesterday you would have also received your School Year Book showcasing the wonderful achievements of 2018 at Holy Trinity.  I sincerely thank all the staff and especially Maria Gagetti, for all their input into both publications.

We have spent over the last few weeks considerable time formuating 2019 classes, taking into account many elements including student friendship choices, parents requests and needs of each individual student. Yesterday afternoon we invited new teaching staff for 2019 to meet with current ELC and school teaching staff to discuss their class groupings for 2019.  Over the last week we have had a couple of staffing changes-  congratulations to Lloyd Scroope who has accepted a teaching position at St Gregory's Queanbeyan and to Leanne Thomas, our music teacher, who has accepted a full-time position at St Jude's.  We welcome Tiffany Fletcher as our new music teacher, who has spent an extensive amout of time with the ANU Music Engagement program. Another change has been in the increase of enrolments we have had in Kindergarten for 2019.  We have also had a few students leave in the 5 /6 area, so our extra class will now be in Kindergarten, not 5 /6 as previously announced. The following is our teaching staff for 2019 and their allocated class groups: 

Students will be given an opportunity next Tuesday afternoon to meet in their new classrooms with their 2019 teacher. Class lists will then be emailed to all families at the end of next week. We look forward to sharing with you our Christmas Concert tomorrow night and I thank the staff, especially Kirsty Everding, for all the organisation of this. There will be opportunity at both concerts to purchase the Holy Trinity cookbook, especially if you are looking for a wonderful Christmas present.  Thank you also to the P & F for catering the BBQ following the evening concert.  As the hall will be set up for the concert on Friday morning, we will be presenting our final awards for the year out on lines at 9am.  (This is of couse, weather permitting). Please also note that on Friday all Primary School reports will be sent home. Any child absent tomorrow will have their school report posted tomorrow afternoon. I will be emailing home the 2019 fee schedule as outlined in the Week 7 newsletter today. 

Please keep the Cannell (Avalon and Adler) family in your prayers as Annette's mother has recently passed away.

With every best wish for a holy and peace-filled week ahead with your beautiful families,

Philippa